Such a move would permit thousands of men and women who were harshly sentenced long ago to benefit from lawmakers' enlightened perspectives. Last month, President Obama signed landmark legislation ...

Thirteen people alleging childhood sexual abuse by Catholic priests, nuns and teachers decades ago cannot file civil lawsuits because a retroactive law eliminating the statute of limitations violates ...

A move by state legislators to retroactively change self-defense laws is unconstitutional, the Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled. Without dissent, the judges said Cesar Montes, convicted of the 2005 ...

A court has granted retroactive first offender status under a new Georgia law allowing a second chance for those who were eligible but not offered the opportunity to earn the removal of a conviction ...

More than 1 million Americans have received retroactive Social Security payments as a result of the Social Security Fairness Act that was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden on Jan. 5. At the ...

A draft memo from White House budget office counsel arguing there’s no obligation to pay furloughed workers after a government shutdown may have some legal merit in at least one procedural aspect, ...